Gests is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 38 anagrams from letters in gests (egsst).
1250-1300; Middle English Old French geste action, exploit Latin gesta exploits, neuter plural past participle of gerere to carry on, perform
Hence it would appear that there was a program of the gests, stating the time of arrival at and departure from each of them.
The antients represented the 143 passions, by gests, colors and sounds.
gests at length came to signify adventures or incidents in general.
He does not assert that the earth was stopped on its axis, but sug- gests "refraction" as a way out of the difficulty.
Romayn gestes, the 'Roman gests,' in the collection called Gesta Romanorum, or stories of a like character.